Additional discovery: When setting the multiline property programmatically and the styled prop via the window editor's checkbox, the NilObjectException does not occur. But the EndOfline plus all subsequent text is not displayed in the EditField.
The "inverse" is true as well, i.e., when setting the multiline prop via the window editor's checkbox and the styled prop programmatically, the NilObjectException occurs. This suggests that an EditField's styled and multiline property cannot be set programmatically, but only via the window editor's checkboxes? Thanks, stefan. On 3/6/06, Stefan Thurnherr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all, > > I am having a hard time trying to get an EditField with StyledText to > run. I get NilObjectExceptions when trying to assign text to > MyEditField.StyledText.Text. Here are the steps to reproduce what I > don't understand: > > 1. Create a new RB project. > 2. Add an EditField (say myEf) to Window1 (the default window). > 3. In myEf's Open() event, programmatically set me.styled=true and > me.multiline=true. > 4. Then programmatically add some text, e.g.: > myEf.styledText.text="Firstline"+EndOfLine+"secondline.". > 5. Run the app; it will cause a NilObjectException at the line > mentioned above (my config is RB2006r1 on WinXP). > > The interesting thing is that when the styled and multiline properties > are set via the checkboxes in the window editing GUI instead of > setting them programmatically, the NilObjectException does NOT occur. > > I need to be able to set both properties programmatically though > because I am subclassing EditField and my subclass should support > styled, multiline text by "definition". > > I have spent quite some time trying to figure out what the problem > here is (including searching the RB archives), but no success. Can > anyone help me out here? Maybe it's a simple and stupid thing I am not > aware of? I hope so... > > Thanks, > stefan. > _______________________________________________ Unsubscribe or switch delivery mode: <http://www.realsoftware.com/support/listmanager/> Search the archives of this list here: <http://support.realsoftware.com/listarchives/lists.html>
